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Rick Barrera
In
1981 Rick Barrera founded his consulting and training firm to identify and
teach the distinctions Peak Performers make to produce exceptional
results. He first applied these principles to sales and service
organizations writing three books in the process. “Non-Manipulative
Selling” published by Prentice Hall,
“Collaborative Selling” published by John Wiley and Sons
and “The Dollars and Sense of Exceptional Service Delivery.”
Ken Blanchard
Few people have
impacted the day-to-day management of people and companies as has Ken
Blanchard.
A
gregarious, sought-after and prominent author, speaker and business
consultant, he is universally characterized by friends, colleagues and
clients as one of the most insightful, powerful and compassionate men in
business today. A multitude of Fortune 500 companies and fast-growing
entrepreneurial enterprises have benefited from his unique approach to
managing and developing people.
Gary Bradt
Dr. Gary Bradt
is the one of country's most sought after speakers on the number
one best selling business book
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Dr. Spencer Johnson. As a clinical psychologist, senior
business consultant and close associate of Dr. Johnson, Dr.
Bradt inspires audiences as the world's leading interpreter of
the timeless truths embedded in this profound parable on change.
TODD BUCHOLZ
Todd Buchholz “lights up economics with a wickedly sparkling wit,” says the
Associated Press. He recently jousted with James Carville and Ben Stein, and
Successful Meetings Magazine named him one of the “21 Top Speakers for the 21st
Century. His editorials in the Wall Street Journal correctly forecast the 2001
slowdown in the U.S., and the New York Times has turned to him to decipher
terrorist threats and the job market. BusinessWeek raved about his book Market Shock, which warned of
the quicksand facing the stock market. Buchholz entertains his audiences
and shows them how to thrive in a challenging economy, while gearing up
for future prosperity.
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham is the Global Practice Leader for The Gallup
Organization's Strengths Management practice. He was graduated
from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master's degree in
social and political science. For the last 15 years he has
helped his clients find, focus and develop the most talented
employees. He is the co-author of Gallup's book on great
managers. First. Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest
Managers Do Differently (Simon and Schuster, May 1999). His
latest book, Now, Discover Your Strengths (The Free Press, Feb
2001), introduces the Strengths Finder(c) profile to the world
and provides readers the chance to complete Strengths Finder(c)
and discover their five strongest themes of talent. Marcus lives
in New York City with his wife Jane, and son, Jack.
Ram Charan
Ram Charan
is a highly sought after business advisor, educator, and author. He
has worked for many years with some of the world's most successful
CEOs, including Jack Welch of GE and Edgar Woolard of Dupont.
Ram is known for his practical, real world insights. He started his
business career as a teenager working in the family shoe shop in
India, went on to earn an engineering degree, and then MBA and
doctorate degrees from Harvard Business School. He has taught at
both Harvard and Wharton Business Schools and at GE's famous
Crotonville Institute. Business Week named him the number two
resource for in-house executive education.
Steve Farber
Steve Farber joined the Tom Peters Company in 1994 as their
first full-time staff consultant. He quickly became their most
requested consultant and speaker and was given the title of Vice
President and Official Mouthpiece (that’s what it said on his
business card). Steve left TPC in November of 2000 to establish
his own practice, and in June of 2001—in recognition of his
contributions to the culture, growth and intellectual capital of
the firm—he was honored with the designation of Tom Peters
Company Fellow. A subject matter expert in business leadership,
Steve is a senior-level leadership consultant who has conducted
hundreds of client engagements with thousands of business people
in a wide variety of industries. Steve’s presentations are
packed with practical, from-the-trenches strategies, examples
and ideas that result in a powerful and meaningful message.
JULIET FUNT
Daughter of Allen Funt,
creator of the Candid Camera television show, Juliet has spent her life
observing the hidden truths beneath our social selves. She won't hide a
camera in your office but will shine a light on the blind spots holding
you back from creating the life you dream of.
Juliet lights up the platform with a true wordsmiths love for the poetry
of a well-turned phrase. She then backs up her engaging words and rich
stories with thought-provoking content that has made her a nationally
recognized expert in the areas of ethics, stress management,
communication and presentation skills. Her show biz genes are amplified
by years performing improvisational comedy on the professional stage and
many, many hours on the platform challenging her audiences to think
deeper, laugh harder, and change their lives more profoundly. She helps
businesses, from top management to front line employees, find and
nurture the human capital that is the fuel behind every organizational
success.
DAVID
GOLDSMITH
David Goldsmith is President and co-founder of MetaMatrix Consulting Group LLC.
Over the past 20 years David has founded or co-founded nine businesses ranging
from distribution to manufacturing to advertising. In 1999, David sold his
14-year-old Syracuse, NY based Image Promoters, Inc. which he co-founded in 1986
to Proforma Associates, a 400-location franchise. He has been a consultant to
various industries including telemarketing, high tech, logistics, retailing,
hospitality, tourism, and manufacturing. Working with business owners, and
corporate and mid-level management, David rapidly creates strategies that win in
the marketplace.
Carol Kinsey Goman
Carol Kinsey Goman is
the president of Kinsey Consulting Services, a firm that specializes in
developing "change-adept" organizations, whose clients include
over 90 organizations in 16 countries. As a speaker, Carol presents
keynote addresses and workshops for management conferences and major trade
association conventions. As an executive coach, she works with senior
managers on ways to become more effective leaders of change.
RICHARD HADDEN
Richard Hadden is a
Certified Speaking
Professional with a focus
on Employee Relations and Creating a Great Place to Work. He is the co-author of
Contented Cows Give Better Milk: The Plain Truth About Employee Relations and
Your Bottom Line.
Richard Hadden
was a manager for a large savings and loan association in the 1980s. He learned
computer programming and worked as a programmer and systems analyst in the field
of multi-user microcomputer software, before the advent of PCs. He was Director
of Product Development for a software house in North Florida before starting his
own software consulting business in 1986.
GARY HAMEL
The ECONOMIST calls Hamel “the
world’s reigning strategy guru.”Hamel’s landmark books, Leading the
Revolution and Competing for the Future, have appeared on every
management bestseller list and have been translated into more than 20
languages. The Journal of Business Strategy recently listed Hamel as one
of the 20th century’s 25 most influential business thinkers, along with
business pioneers such as Henry Ford and Bill Gates. Over the past
twenty years, Hamel has authored 15 articles for the Harvard Business
Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. He has
written for the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The Financial Times and
many other business publications around the world.
Laurence
Haughton
Laurence Haughton is one fast
thinker, a fact he proved when he redefined speed as a competitive
tool for business in his New York Times/Wall Street Journal best
seller, It’s not the big that eat the small…It’s the FAST that eat
the slow.
Now Haughton is doing the same for follow-through in It’s Not What
You Say... It’s What You Do – How Following Through at Every Level
Can Make or Break Your Company.
Mike Hourigan
Mike Hourigan, CSP, is known as “the workplace commentator” for the satirical,
real-world wisdom he brings to corporate and association audiences. His
original material draws from his international education, early blue-collar
jobs, and executive positions with Cargill Incorporated and Olympus
Corporation. These well-rounded experiences produce high-energy messages that
captivate his listeners and provide Mike with an uncanny ability to plug into
individual situations while relating with understanding and humor.
Steven S. Little
Steven S. Little is a much sought after speaker, consultant and writer on the
subject of business growth and the future of opportunity. As a Senior
Consultant for Inc. Magazine since 1998, he speaks to thousands of owners and
managers of growing businesses each year. He is the author of the new
best-selling book “The 7 Irrefutable Rules of Small Business Growth” (Wiley
2005) which is now in its fourth printing.
Frank Maguire
Frank
Maguire is President of Hearth Communications Group, a global
consulting firm in the field of marketing and employee/customer
relations, based in Westlake Village CA. He is one of corporate
America’s most knowledgeable authorities on quality,
productivity and communications. As the Senior Vice President
of Industrial Relations of Federal Express, Frank is
acknowledged as creator of the personnel, communications and
employee relations programs that made the company the
multi-billion dollar success story of the past two decades. He
was a key component on the management team that turned the
‘absolutely positively overnight’ from a hope to a guarantee.
He created the corporate culture, which resulted in Federal
Express being named “The Top Corporation of the Decade” by
Fortune Magazine.
Cam Marston
Consultant,
author, and speaker Cam Marston has worked with Fortune 500
companies and small businesses throughout the world to improve
multigenerational relations and communications. He has appeared in
the Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, New
Zealand Herald, Entrepreneur Magazine, Charlotte
Observer, HR Management Today, Money Magazine,
Fortune Small Business (FSB), on the BBC, and in and numerous
trade journals and city business journals across the United States.
William (Gus)
Pagonis
When
it comes to expertise in logistics and overall leadership in management of
very complex projects and organizations, few people are better qualified
than Gus Pagonis, a retired three-star U.S. Army General. Lieutenant
General Pagonis is widely recognized for his logistical achievements
particularly during Desert Shield/Storm. After successfully
masterminding logistics for the Gulf War and winning high praise from
General Norman Schwarzkopf, Pagonis left the Army in 1993 and was elected
Executive Vice President of Logistics for Sears Roebuck & Co. As
head of the Sears Logistics Group, he functions as the single point of
contact for all Sears’ logistics and is responsible for Vendor
Relations, Distribution, Transportation, Home Deliveries, Outlet Stores,
International Logistics and the integration of Information Systems to
cement it all together.
Alan Patching
Alan
Patching is one of the most sought‑after keynote business presenters
speakers in Australia. From senior executives of leading corporations to
sales incentive groups and professional associations, he has inspired,
challenged, informed and entertained audiences for many years.
Ian Percy
To go deep, you have to come from the deep. Ian Percy is a man
who has searched his soul and now takes his satisfaction in
prodding major corporations and public institutions into a
reassessment of their individual and corporate spirituality.
The human spirit, he contends, is today's frontier for any
organization intent on success. Many people talk about change,
leadership, teamwork, motivation, etc ... but not like Ian
does. With limitless humor, he encourages, provokes, guides,
coaches and lifts organizations to a place filled with unifying
purpose and passion.
Fred Reichheld
Fred Reichheld is a director emeritus of Bain & Company and a
Bain Fellow. He is the founder of the firm's Loyalty Practice.
His pioneering work in the area of customer, employee and
investor retention has quantified the linkage between value,
loyalty and profits. This work forms the conceptual foundation
for the Loyalty Practice (unique among the major consulting
firms), which helps clients to achieve superior results through
improvements in customer, employee and investor loyalty.
Ed Rigsbee
Ed Rigsbee, CSP, president, at Rigsbee Research, is a nationally
recognized expert on strategic alliance development and
implementation. He created the Total Organizational Partnering
System (TOPS) as a result of his extensive research in the area
of strategic alliances. He has authored three business
relationship books: PartnerShift-How to Profit from the
Partnering Trend, Developing Strategic Alliances, and The
Art of Partnering.
Martha Rogers, Ph.D.
Business 2.0
magazine named Martha Rogers, Ph.D. one of the nineteen most
important business gurus of the past century. The World Technology
Network named her as “an innovator most likely to create visionary
ripple effects.” Recognized for the past decade as one of the
world’s leading experts on customer-based business strategies and
growing customer value, Dr. Rogers is an acclaimed author, a world
class-class speaker, and a founding partner of Peppers and Rogers
Group, the world’s leading customer-focused management consulting
firm, based in Norwalk, CT, and boasting an impressive list of
Fortune 500 clients. Gartner Group has positioned Peppers and
Rogers Group as the only CRM-services firm that can help clients
with both “vision” and “implementation” of their customer strategy.
Martha’s experience, expertise, and ability to think out of the
box makes her equally popular with media interviewers, speaking
event planners, and Fortune 1000 executives seeking to learn how
to compete in the Information Age.
Michael Treacy
Michael
Treacy is the Chief Strategist and Co-Chairman of Gen3 Partners. Gen3
creates, architects, and builds and launches B2B, Internet-enabled
businesses for companies seeking to establish and distinguish themselves
in the New Economy. Fusing strategy, technology and entrepreneurship, Gen3
provides a total solution for companies facing the "permanent change
and relentless challenge" the Internet represents.
Art Turock
Art Turock is an
authority in the field of "breakthrough performance." His ideas
have been shared in Success Magazine, U.S.A. Today. Reader's Digest, The
One Minute Manager series, Association Management, and Chicken Soup for
the Soul at Work. A master at turning theoretical concepts into hard-hitting
practicality, he hits presented to 100's of major professional
associations and Fortune 500 companies.
Richard Whiteley
Vice chairman and cofounder of The Forum Corporation, an international
training and consulting firm specializing in helping organizations become
customer centered.
Under Mr. Whiteley's direction, The Forum Corporation has introduced
leadership, sales and customer focus training programs that are among the
most widely used in business today. He has also been central to the growth
of Forum's consulting services designed to help clients mobilize their
organizations to effectively exercise their strategy.
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